Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British Foreign Office declined to comment, but a Conservative M.P. introduced a motion in the House of Commons questioning the Senator's qualifications "for expressing moral judgments on anything"-an obvious reference to the 1969 Chappaquiddick tragedy. In a cutting cartoon, the London Evening Standard showed a crusty clubman growling over his port: "Looks like Kennedy's driven in at the deep end again...
...Here is Cartoonist Joe Barbera displaying a large illustration of a beagle and a cat, central characters in a pilot cartoon about middle-class family life as seen through the eyes of their pets. "Can't sell it," complains the illustrator. [The networks] say it's too gentle. They want hard action...
...remainder of the new ABC children's shows are, unfortunately, more like the old ones. Funky Phantom is an adventure cartoon centering around three teenagers, their pet dog and a ghost from the Revolutionary War era. Also new is Lidsville. It is a loud and noisy half-hour telling about a kid who took a header into a giant top hat and ended up in a land called Lidsville, inhabited by, of all things, hats. Head bad guy is an inept wizard named Whoo-Doo, who calls his minions "stupid" and classifies them as "little creeps." Jackson 5, still...
...economic policy (see THE ECONOMY) presented a special problem for weekly publications. New York, for example, had already completed its press run of 333,500. Even as the stock market soared briefly in what was called "the Nixon Rally," New York appeared on the stands with a cover cartoon of Nixon fiddling a la Nero while the Stock Exchange burned. Inside was a six-page feature on "Wall Street's Case Against Richard Nixon...
...cartoonist of the Washington Evening Star; in Venice, Fla. Berryman was working as the paper's sports cartoonist when his father Clifford Berryman, the Star's political cartoonist, fell ill in 1935. James filled in, stayed on to become half of the foremost father-son team in cartoon history. Clifford won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for a cartoon on the wartime Government's manpower-mobilization problems; James got his Pulitzer in 1950 for his McCarthy era drawing of a committee hearing room filled with microphones and cameras. The title: "All Set for a Super-Secret Session...